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Finding the beliefs that trap us
My recent Harvard Business School Working Knowledge column discussed how we're trapped inside our beliefs. It even got mentioned on the Boston Globe BLOG. I say that "thinking outside the box" means thinking outside your beliefs. But this is just darned hard to do!...
Busy, but boy… word gets around
A friend just pointed me to this post on the Boston Globe where I'm being referenced. In this world of the Blogosphere, information moves fast! Shortly after posting my BLOG entry on oil and gas prices, I got a phone call from the PR agency for a major oil company...
Thinking outside the Box: Here Come the Zombies!
Yes, I confess. I did the whole "undead" thing last week at the Cambridge Zombie March. The Zombie March is just what it sounds like. A couple of hundred people dressed up as zombies and shambled a couple of miles across the city of Cambridge. I heard about it at the...
What if politics were organized around process, not positions?
Ever notice how people don't change their minds? Even when confronted with compelling evidence against their position, they cling to their position and emotionally shred the evidence rather than face the notion that their beliefs are wrong. As one high-ranking...
You want innovation? Think outside the box. The org chart box.
In my mastermind group, an HR consultant happily announced she just concluded a project standardizing job descriptions across a multi-thousand-person company. In that moment, she named herself my nemesis. For my job is helping people rise to their own strengths, and...
Why gas prices are so high and oil companies enjoy record profits
On "The Daily Show" the other night, John Stewart hosted an oil industry expert talking a bit about current oil prices. She was a very happy woman, and her engaging, bubbly personality was just charming enough that she could repeatedly evade John's questions without...
Kids on Planes, how nice. Please, leave them at home.
It was worse than a Stephen King Novel. Eight hours from Milan to Boston. A newborn in the seat to my right. His 2-year old sister two seats to the right. One in the seat in front of me. Two other children (same family, apparently) in the row behind. One more, two...
Does hard work bring success?
A reader wrote: So my parents and friends insist I work harder to be more successful. But I can't concentrate for another hour. I just zone out. Do you have any advice? Two things jump out at me: first, you may be letting others set your goals. You say your friends...
Is our addiction to Ownership giving us less all around?
If we redirected our obsession with tracking ownership into making a bigger pie, how much more could we do with our lives?